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July 15th, 2015 09:00
Expanding Virtual Disk Issue
I have a Dell R620 with the H710 Mini PERC. I had 4 drives associated with one virtual disk. I added 4 more disks, which show online. I added the physical disk to the virtual disk and it shows such in OpenManage. However, I cannot expand the virtual disk to utilize the additional storage. When I use OpenManage to try and Reconfigure the virtual disk, it gives me an error that it can't be reconfigured.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jack
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theflash1932
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July 15th, 2015 12:00
What do you mean you "added the physical disk to the virtual disk"?!
If you have a RAID 10, you cannot Reconfigure/Expand it.
JAlspaugh
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July 16th, 2015 08:00
Thanks for the reply. It does look like there is a firmware update available, I will apply that tonight. It RAID-0 and the disks I added were the exact same as the ones already in it (Dell 300GB SAS 6GB 15K). There was 4, I added 4 more.
theflash1932
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July 16th, 2015 09:00
You are running 4 disks in a RAID 0?! If I were you, I'd use your 4 new disks to change that to a RAID 5 or 6!
If you go to the Storage, PERC, Enclosure/Backplane, Physical Disks screen, are each of the disks recognized and what is their status?
JAlspaugh
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July 16th, 2015 10:00
Storage, PERC, Connector 0, enclosure, physical disks shows the same 8 disks all online
JAlspaugh
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July 16th, 2015 10:00
Under storage PERC there is no Enclosure/Backplane, but if I go to Storage, PERC, Virtual Disks it shows 8 Physical Disks all online.
theflash1932
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July 16th, 2015 22:00
It can't show all 8 as Online ... some must say either Ready or Foreign, unless you have already created an array with those disks (or imported a foreign configuration).
JAlspaugh
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July 17th, 2015 08:00
See attached PNG
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theflash1932
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July 17th, 2015 09:00
Let's see your Virtual Disks screen ...
JAlspaugh
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July 17th, 2015 09:00
I appreciate all your help, apparently it just took some time for the new space to show up on the disk management screen. I checked and the additional unallocated space finally showed up. I expanded the drive and all is good. Thanks again! -Jack